1. PROJECT INFORMATION
Title PICES Tohoku coastal field survey (fouling plate) – supplemental study for U.S. tsunami debris spp. List in Year 3
Award period Jan 20, 2016 – Dec 31, 2016
Amount of funding $ 86,206 CAD
Report submission date Dec. 31 st , 2016
Lead Author of Report* Hisatsugu Kato (JANUS), Michio Otani, Taichi Yonezawa (JANUS)
*Although there may be only one lead author of the report, all PIs and co-PIs of the project, as identified in the approved statement of work and listed below, are responsible for the content of the Final Report in terms of completeness and accuracy.
Principal Investigator(s), Co-Principal Investigators and Recipient Organization(s):
Dr. Hisatsugu Kato Taichi Yonezawa
Japan NUS Co., LTD. Nishi-Shinjuku Kimuraya Building 5F, 7-5-25 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160-0023, Japan
+81-3-5925-6885 (Direct) Email: [email protected]
Mr. Michio Otani Rokujo Midori-machi 3-9-10, Nara City, Japan, 630-8045 Tel & Fax: 81-742-48-8552
2. YEAR 3 PROGRESS SUMMARY a. Describe progress.
The field surveys for Installation and retrieval of fouling plates, morphological identification, and DNA sequencing were conducted as follows.
• Field survey All the field surveys are completed in accordance with a following schedule (Table 1).